Wonder what The Sandman is up to these days.
It’s been 10 years guys...
That was a great night for me. I was at a party where the 1st girl I plowed was at and that’s when I planted the seed hahaWhy you gotta make me feel old man?
That was a great night to be an MMA fan.
The affliction card was STACKED: Fedor vs Tim Sylvia
Arlovski vs Ben Rothwell
Barnett vs Rizzo
Plus Babalu, Lindland and Vitor on the PRELIMS!!
Masterful performances by Fedor and Anderson that night, both looked like gods toying with mortals.
I really miss this era of MMA, there was still a wild west element to it and random companies popping up spending millions for 1 or 2 events, then disappearing. It was refreshing and shook things up
That Affliction banned card still kicks the shit out of UFC cards to this day.
Fedor, Arlovski, Rothwell, Barnett, Rizzo, Babalu, Lindland, Vitor, Big Nog.
Me too!
Affliction almost seemed like they were going to be a "heavyweight" org for a minute there.
Plus
Strikeforce
WEC
EliteXC
Dream
Superbrawl/Icon
(who else ordered the DVDs off their corny "Girls gone wild" style late night add? I know I'm not the only one... af there were some great fights in that org.)
That was a great era to be a fan, lots of discussion on here about how non UFC guys like Arona and Aoki would do if they fought UFC guys, people were saying Lindland would beat Anderson, or arguing that another org had a better top 5 or top ten than UFC at certain weight classes.
'Cleared by USADA' in 2018 is akin to saying "WME GUNNA WME".And Barnett has only pissed hot once* since.
(Was cleared by USADA the second time)